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Actually if you head over to r/AcademicBiblical you will find one consensus among scholars(no matter the denomination + atheist) is that there are multiple variations of the bible.

Thus there is no one canonical bible. We can only have approximations of the originals.

And that is before we get to the problem of translating Koine Greek and ancient Hebrew into modern languages.

Multiple endings of Mark, the added adultery fable, the Johannine comma and that is just the examples from New Testament.

There are basically two types of errors when copying, the innocent: like copying line twice - probably due to tiredness

Then there is the ideological, where change was made by copyst to suit some particular ideology.

Actually there is also the well meaning copyist who sometimes will "correct" some text.

The earliest fragments we have are at least 100 years removed from originals for the New Testament.

For the Old Testament the earliest we have Dead See Scrolls which are also a couple of hundred of years removed from originals if not more.



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